[geeks] PowerBook

[Andrew Weiss]

On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Jeff Borisch wrote:

> I ran into a problem I was trying to troubleshoot where I could not get a
> connection.  I found TCP/IP could not report any hardware address, I thought
> the ethernet chip was toast. I know I should have checked that the cable was
> OK,  but it had just worked the day before and it had not been moved or
> agitated.
>
> Oddly the MacOS software will not report a MAC address if the link is bad or
> simply no cable. I remember reading a technote which stated this. This seems
> like a stupid behavior.

Indeed I thought I had two bad ethernet chips on both Quadras when I ran
into this problem.  It turns out it was a minor oversight on my part.  My
original hub was a 100BaseTX only... not a combo hub like I thought.  When
I got my partitioning hub I was nicely amazed when I saw everything start
working again on both boards and a MAC address showed up in OpenTransport.

Andrew J. Weiss
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